ELLITE: Journal of Education, Linguistics, Literature and Language Teaching
Vol 6 No 01 (2023): JURNAL ELLITE ( JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, LINGUISTICS,LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE TEACHI

THE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ENGLISH CONVERSATION IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILLOF SMA KRISTEN PETRA KEFAMENANU

Astri Kota (Timor university)



Article Info

Publish Date
16 Sep 2023

Abstract

The study was aimed to examine the effectiveness of the English conversation in improving students’ speaking skill focusing on whether English conversation effective in speaking skill and how is the effectiveness of the English conversation in improving students’ speaking skill. The research was designed in a pre-experimental pre-test and post- test research, where the research only applied the English conversation to the experimental group that consisted of 18 students. The sample of the study was taken by using cluster random sampling technique. It was taken randomly of 77 eleventh grade of SMA Kristen Petra Kefamenanu. The instrument that the researcher used was speaking test. The research result shows that The gaining data of pre-test and post-test was taken by requiring the students to make and practice a conversation in front of the class based on the material that was learnt before. Later, the pre-test and post-test data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics and Paired Sample t-test to test the hypothesis. Having collected and calculated the data by using descriptive statistics, the present researcher found out that descriptive statistic result showed the mean score of the pre-test was 38.22 while the mean of the post-test was 88.33. The result of hypothesis testing by using Paired-Sample t-test was = .000. It was lower than .05 so it means that the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. In other word that the English conversation was significantly effective in speaking skill.

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Journal Info

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ELLITE

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Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Jurnal Ellite ( Journal of Education, Linguistics, Literature,and Language Teaching) di terbitkan oleh Program studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Universitas Samudra , Jurnal tersebut di bentuk dan disesuaikan penamaan nya dengan tujuan untuk menjadikan cakupan ...